scholarly journals Quantitation of Cellular Dynamics in Growing Arabidopsis Roots with Light Sheet Microscopy

PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. e21303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Sena ◽  
Zak Frentz ◽  
Kenneth D. Birnbaum ◽  
Stanislas Leibler
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takafumi Ichikawa ◽  
Hui Ting Zhang ◽  
Laura Panavaite ◽  
Anna Erzberger ◽  
Dimitri Fabrèges ◽  
...  

Upon implantation, mammalian embryos undergo major morphogenesis and key developmental processes such as body axis specification and gastrulation. However, limited accessibility obscures study of these crucial processes. Here, we develop an ex vivo Matrigel-collagen-based culture to recapitulate mouse development from E4.5 to 6.0. Our system not only recapitulates embryonic growth, axis initiation, and overall 3D architecture in 49% of cases, its compatibility with light-sheet microscopy enables study of cellular dynamics through automatic cell segmentation. We find that upon implantation, release of the increasing tension in the polar trophectoderm is necessary for its constriction and invagination. The resulting extra-embryonic ectoderm plays a key role in growth, morphogenesis and patterning of the neighboring epiblast, which subsequently gives rise to all embryonic tissues. This 3D-ex vivo system thus offers an unprecedented access to peri-implantation development for in toto monitoring, measurement and spatio-temporally controlled perturbation, revealing a mechano-chemical interplay between extra-embryonic and embryonic tissues.


Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingqing Cheng ◽  
Juncheng Wang ◽  
Ling Ma ◽  
Zhixiong Shen ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
...  

AbstractAiry beams exhibit intriguing properties such as nonspreading, self-bending, and self-healing and have attracted considerable recent interest because of their many potential applications in photonics, such as to beam focusing, light-sheet microscopy, and biomedical imaging. However, previous approaches to generate Airy beams using photonic structures have suffered from severe chromatic problems arising from strong frequency dispersion of the scatterers. Here, we design and fabricate a metasurface composed of silicon posts for the frequency range 0.4–0.8 THz in transmission mode, and we experimentally demonstrate achromatic Airy beams exhibiting autofocusing properties. We further show numerically that a generated achromatic Airy-beam-based metalens exhibits self-healing properties that are immune to scattering by particles and that it also possesses a larger depth of focus than a traditional metalens. Our results pave the way to the realization of flat photonic devices for applications to noninvasive biomedical imaging and light-sheet microscopy, and we provide a numerical demonstration of a device protocol.


2021 ◽  
Vol 93 (8) ◽  
pp. 4092-4099
Author(s):  
Bing Li ◽  
Aleks Ponjavic ◽  
Wei-Hsin Chen ◽  
Lee Hopkins ◽  
Craig Hughes ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Urmas Roostalu ◽  
Louise Thisted ◽  
Jacob Lercke Skytte ◽  
Casper Gravesen Salinas ◽  
Philip Juhl Pedersen ◽  
...  

AbstractAngiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, among them captopril, improve survival following myocardial infarction (MI). The mechanisms of captopril action remain inadequately understood due to its diverse effects on multiple signalling pathways at different time periods following MI. Here we aimed to establish the role of captopril in late-stage post-MI remodelling. Left anterior descending artery (LAD) ligation or sham surgery was carried out in male C57BL/6J mice. Seven days post-surgery LAD ligated mice were allocated to daily vehicle or captopril treatment continued over four weeks. To provide comprehensive characterization of the changes in mouse heart following MI a 3D light sheet imaging method was established together with automated image analysis workflow. The combination of echocardiography and light sheet imaging enabled to assess cardiac function and the underlying morphological changes. We show that delayed captopril treatment does not affect infarct size but prevents left ventricle dilation and hypertrophy, resulting in improved ejection fraction. Quantification of lectin perfused blood vessels showed improved vascular density in the infarct border zone in captopril treated mice in comparison to vehicle dosed control mice. These results validate the applicability of combined echocardiographic and light sheet assessment of drug mode of action in preclinical cardiovascular research.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Theodor Borlinghaus

Author(s):  
Christopher D. Nguyen ◽  
Patrick K. O'Neal ◽  
Nachiket Kulkarni ◽  
Eric Yang ◽  
Dongkyun Kang

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1975-1986
Author(s):  
Nicholas B Bèchet ◽  
Tekla M Kylkilahti ◽  
Bengt Mattsson ◽  
Martina Petrasova ◽  
Nagesh C Shanbhag ◽  
...  

Fluid transport in the perivascular space by the glia-lymphatic (glymphatic) system is important for the removal of solutes from the brain parenchyma, including peptides such as amyloid-beta which are implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. The glymphatic system is highly active in the sleep state and under the influence of certain of anaesthetics, while it is suppressed in the awake state and by other anaesthetics. Here we investigated whether light sheet fluorescence microscopy of whole optically cleared murine brains was capable of detecting glymphatic differences in sleep- and awake-mimicking anaesthesia, respectively. Using light-sheet imaging of whole brains, we found anaesthetic-dependent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) influx differences, including reduced tracer influx along tertiary branches of the middle cerebral artery and reduced influx along dorsal and anterior penetrating arterioles, in the awake-mimicking anaesthesia. This study establishes that light sheet microscopy of optically cleared brains is feasible for quantitative analyses and can provide images of the entire glymphatic system in whole brains.


2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 195a-196a
Author(s):  
Zeno Lavagnino ◽  
Francesca Cella Zanacchi ◽  
Emiliano Ronzitti ◽  
Ivan Coto Hernandez ◽  
Alberto Diaspro

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